Winter Garden
Our first attempt at a winter vegetable garden is going well. Molly was able to harvest greens, carrots and radishes on New Year's Day.
The cats normally aren't allowed in the garden. Molly let them in while she was cleaning up the tomato bed for next summer. Kitty Boy explored the winter vegetable bed.
The beds are 16 feet long. This one is 8 feet wide. The winter bed is 4 feet wide, with metal tubing hoops bent to support the plastic cover. We keep the bed covered with plastic when the temperature drops below 35 degrees. When it is very cold (below about 25 degrees) we also cover the plants with spun row cover. When it gets extremely cold, Molly will cover the plants with leaves, then row cover and finally the plastic over the hoops.
It's not all work in the garden. Here Molly is texting while gardening. She's wearing a blaze vest because hunting season didn't end until New Year's.
More soon!
The cats normally aren't allowed in the garden. Molly let them in while she was cleaning up the tomato bed for next summer. Kitty Boy explored the winter vegetable bed.
The beds are 16 feet long. This one is 8 feet wide. The winter bed is 4 feet wide, with metal tubing hoops bent to support the plastic cover. We keep the bed covered with plastic when the temperature drops below 35 degrees. When it is very cold (below about 25 degrees) we also cover the plants with spun row cover. When it gets extremely cold, Molly will cover the plants with leaves, then row cover and finally the plastic over the hoops.
It's not all work in the garden. Here Molly is texting while gardening. She's wearing a blaze vest because hunting season didn't end until New Year's.
More soon!
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